enslaven
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
enslaven (comparative more enslaven, superlative most enslaven)
- (dated, poetic or archaic) enslaved
- 1846, Horace Smith, Miscellaneous poems, page 58:
- Let the dotard and craven by fear be enslaven.
- 1858, Carnatic Stipendaries of 1801:
- Your Petitioner having for immense of time served His Highness the Nabob Homdud ul Omrah with cautiousness and close attention even to that degree not to mind his meals or either rest as if he was enslaven to him, […]
- 1889, Charles Edward Barns, Solitarius to His Dæmon, page 112:
- By this thirst are we taught that in the universality of law, nothing is fortuitous or arbitrary of God or mankind ; nothing rewardless or crownless that not so deserves ; nothing that thinks can long remain enslaven to common trivial cyphers, and in the calm assurance of these alone is the scrutiny of intellect in all things justified.
- 2014, James J. Wilhelm, Lyrics of the Middle Ages: An Anthology, page 131:
- By your sacred cross
They're all enslaven.
Etymology 2 edit
From a verbal use of Etymology 1; or from en- + slave + -en.
Verb edit
enslaven (third-person singular simple present enslavens, present participle enslavening, simple past and past participle enslavened)
- (transitive) to enslave